- Planet - Wikipedia
Planets have historically had religious associations: multiple cultures identified celestial bodies with gods, and these connections with mythology and folklore persist in the schemes for naming newly discovered Solar System bodies Earth itself was recognized as a planet when heliocentrism supplanted geocentrism during the 16th and 17th centuries
- About the Planets - Science@NASA
Our solar system has eight planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune There are five officially recognized dwarf planets in our solar system: Ceres, Pluto, Haumea, Makemake, and Eris
- Definition, Solar System, Characteristics, Facts - Britannica
Planet, broadly, any relatively large natural body that revolves in an orbit around the Sun or around some other star and that is not radiating energy from internal nuclear fusion reactions There are eight planets orbiting the Sun in the solar system
- Solar System - National Air and Space Museum
The Solar System, located in the Milky Way Galaxy, is our celestial neighborhood Our Solar System consists of 8 planets, several dwarf planets, dozens of moons, and millions of asteroids, comets, and meteoroids They are all bound by gravity to the Sun, which is the star at the center of the Solar System
- Solar system guide - Discover the order of planets and other amazing . . .
Discover the order of planets in the solar system From Mercury to Neptune, explore our solar system and learn more about our cosmic home
- The Nine Planets of The Solar System | Eight Planets Without Pluto
An overview of the history, mythology and current scientific knowledge of the planets, moons and other objects in our solar system
- Solar System planets complete guide - BBC Sky at Night Magazine
Planets of the Solar System, their order by size and distance from the Sun and facts about the rocky terrestrial worlds and the gas giants
- Our Solar System: A Tour of All the Planets
The planets, from searing Mercury to frigid Neptune, each offer a unique chapter in the story of our solar system’s formation, evolution, and mystery As we journey from one world to the next, we find extremes of temperature, weather, geology, and even time itself
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